Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1887-02-21

will De held in the truck house this even
ing. Don't Forget 20 have all bill
against the fair GU hand for consideration
Colonel East has received large pho
tographe OF Mrs. Cleveland and Senate
Voorhees,, which are on exhibition o
Howard's book store. They we're sen
to the colonel and his wife from bead
quarters.
Saturday night brought the two regu.
lar trains in oyer the Northwestern ant
the regular Sunday trains we're ranninf
yesterday, To-day's trains departed ant
arrived on time and the Northwestern il
again open to travel.
Major Cox gives strong symptoms O.
an intention to perpetrate another poem
since Harry Wynn's return from the
haunts of eastern fashion accompanied
by a two story hat. 1t is liable to come
With the spring floods.
Tomorrow will be Washington's
birthday, a legal holiday, and the banks
schools. college and many of the bust
ness houses will be closed through the
day. The central office of the telephone
exchange will be closed in the afternoon.
AT the p%ostoffice tomorrow the gen.
eral delivery, stamp window, ETC., will
be open from 8 to 10 a. NJ. and from 2
to 3 p. m. No money order or register
business will be transacted during the
day. Mails arriving will be distributed
| as usual.
r. l.. VanTasseI, of the board of trus-
tees of the Yankton insane hospital, is
waiting the sensation of the short sharp
shock" attendant upon a mans being
released from o place of public trust.
Mr.. VanTassel has made no application
for reappointment and expects to be re-
leased.
M. N. Gillette, who returned yester-
day from the north, says that such a
complete blockade of the railroads by
snow has never been heard of as that
which at present exists along the Pierre
line of the North western and Chamber
lam line of the Milwaukee roads in
central and south central Dakota.
Judge A. J. Edgerton, of Mitchell, in
q letter which he recently addressed to
his son. e. J. Edgerton, of this city, says
he believes the Manitoba railroad will
be built to Yankton. Judge Edgerton
has recently had q personal interview
With Mr.. Hill, of the Manitoba, and on
the result of that confab he made this
statement,
A squad of recently snow bound
travelling men reached Yankton Satur-
day night from the north. They had
been in the drifts from three to ten days
and their accounts of winter in the
upper regions lead to the conclusion that
our supply of snow is light compared
with that enjoyed by u neighbors. The
whole country is showed under and drifts
ten, twenty and thirty feet high are
mentioned as frequent sights.
The Milwaukee passenger train from
the east did not reach Yankton until
three O'Clock yesterday morning, having
been held at Elk Point for the Sioux
Falls passenger, which had not reached
Elk Point when the Yankton train left.
Conductor jackson received orders upon
his arrival here to return at once to Elk
Point for the accommodation OF several
westward bound passengers who had
reached Elk Point at four O'Clock from
Sioux Falls. Mr.. Jackson went to Elk
Point and returned arriving here at nine
O'Clock yesterday forenoon.
Recently two Yankton county farmers
made arrangements to purchase q
quarter section OF land which separated
their farms, from j. f. Vaughn, of Sioux
City, who held the property at $4,000.
The farmers wrote saying that they
would pay him that price and i n return
they received answer to the effect that
the value OF the land had risen $500,
within the pest week, and could not now
be purchased for less than $4,000. Mr..
Vaughn in the letter said that Yankton
county and city were going to grow q
great deal within year, that Yankton
was to have a bridge and that he would
not sell his land just now.
Mrs. N. Morgan barely escaped serious
injury yesterday afternoon while re.
turning from the cemetery from the
funeral Of Nellie Stevens. Mrs. Morgan
was riding with Thos. Stewart and
others in q bob sled and when about half
way to the city other teams trying to
pass excited Me-. Stewards horses and
they broke into q run Mrs. Morgan, be-
coming frightened, jumped from the sled
and some portion of her clothing catching
ona projecting nall she was dragged on
the ground for some distance, but es-
capped with no more serious injury than
a sprained ankle and badly bruised hands
and face. The lady is quietly resting in
bed at her home to-day.
Articles Of incorpora ton were to-day
forwarded to Bismarck for official rat
lication which provide for the construc.
ton o! q railroad between Sioux Falls
and Yankton, under the name OF the
Yankton, Sioux Falls & Nebraska rail-
road company. This company is organ.
lied to act in desperation with the
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